/LWXUJ\ +\PQRG\ Volume 1, Issue 1, Advent 2004 You may be thinking, “Right. That’s what they Welcome said last time.” “The Common Service (Divine Service I), familiar to all Lutherans, is carried This is the inaugural issue of Liturgy & forward with no great changes…” (LW Hymnody, a publication of the Wyoming Introduction, p. 6.) This time, there are only District of the Lutheran Church—Missouri minimal changes. Synod. TLH page 15 shows up in LSB as Divine Our goal is to Service, Setting Three. The sung portions of + Foster appreciation for the Lutheran the familiar liturgy remain intact, complete with heritage in Christian Worship “Holy Ghost,” “We praise Thee,” “And with thy spirit,” and “Praise be to Thee, O Christ.” The + Advise and counsel congregations Familiar four-part harmony supports the text the way it always has. The only musical change is and pastors in the use of appropriate that the Kyrie and Gloria have been lowered one worship resources and material step to allow for easier singing and an easier key for the organist. + Provide specific helps to ease the transition from The Lutheran Hymnal, Spoken text in Divine Service, Setting Three has Lutheran Worship, and Hymnal been gently updated. For example, “I, a poor, Supplement 98 to the forthcoming miserable sinner, confess unto You all my sins Lutheran Service Book (hereafter LSB), and iniquities with which I have ever offended expected to be released in fall 2006 You and justly deserved Your temporal and eternal punishment…” The LCMS Commission on Worship TLH page 5, “The Order of Morning Service website, http://worship.lcms.org Without Communion” is not printed separately has electronic files of LSB material in LSB, to save space. To pray “page 5,” you available for download and trial use. will have the option to use the confession/declaration of grace. The Offertory Teaching Toward LSB: found on TLH page 12 will be in LSB’s canticle TLH page 15 / LW page 136 section. Finally, after the Prayer of the Church, the service concludes with the Lord’s Prayer, a familiar concluding collect, and the Benediction. Perhaps your congregation currently makes use of the 1941 Synodical Conference book, The Lutheran Hymnal. “The Order of Holy What if your congregation currently uses LW Communion,” p. 15, will be in LSB with page 136? The most practical things to do are to minimal changes. wait until LSB arrives, or to consider downloading LSB Divine Service, Setting Three, Volume 1, Issue 1, Advent 2004 and reintroducing it to your congregation. Tips on Introducing New Several Wyoming District congregations have a booklet version of LSB DS3 inside the front Hymns or Service Music cover of LW held in by removable double-stick tape. To download the pdf file, use the link + Don’t introduce an entire service at one time. Take one canticle at a time. Speak musical portions for a below, or access the file through the main time if reproducing only part of the service is Commission on Worship website. inconvenient. http://www.lcms.org/graphics/assets/ + When introducing something a new liturgy, use media/Worship/DS3.pdf very familiar hymns. When introducing a new hymn, use a familiar liturgy. Try not to introduce more than one new piece of music each month. Hymns for Advent, Christmas, + One week, ask your organist simply play the new tune as part of the prelude or postlude. Another week, and Epiphany ask your choir or a soloist to sing the whole hymn or the first few stanzas. Then, use the hymn periodically This new Church Year, consider introducing one to keep it fresh. or more of the following hymns from Lutheran Worship or Hymnal Supplement 98. Recommended Music The best part is, your congregation doesn’t have + Hymns for All Saints is a 2 CD set of to have LW or HS in the pews in order to do this. vocal and organ settings of “Beautiful Savior,” The Commission on Worship (hereafter, CoW) “How Great Thou Art,” “The Church’s One has a pdf file of 35 hymns available in their LSB Foundation,” and 16 other hymns of comfort, final form. All of the hymns are either in the praise, and adoration. CPH # 99-1725. On sale public domain, or may be reproduced in your for $17.50. 1 800 325 3040 bulletin with the free permission of Concordia + Martin Luther: Hymns, Ballads, Publishing House (CPH) or Augsburg Fortress. Chants, Truth is a monumental recording Advent project of all of Luther’s musical compositions. The King Shall Come LW 26 Thirty-nine tracks on four CDs. CPH # 99-1726. Only $30 when ordered in quantities of 3 or Come, O Long-Expected Jesus LW 22 more. 1 800 325 3040 Rejoice, Rejoice Believers HS 801 + My Soul Doth Magnify, a new release by Lo! He Comes with Clouds HS 802 the CTS Kantorei, Fort Wayne. Call (260) 452- Christmas 2159. Angels We Have Heard on High LW 55 + Gentle Stranger is new music from Once in Royal David’s City LW 58 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. Call (314) 505- What Child Is This LW 61 7315. See, Amid the Winter’s Snow HS 808 + Hark the Glad Sound is a collection of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany hymns sung Epiphany by Kathryn Peperkorn. Call (262) 551-8182. Jesus Has Come LW 78 O Wondrous Type LW 87 Questions? Comments? To download these hymns for yourself, see Suggestions? http://www.lcms.org/graphics/assets/media/ Worship/HymnstoLearn.pdf Rev. Paul J Cain, Jr. [email protected] Wyoming District Worship Chairman Ephesians 2:8-10 Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church (LCMS) 901 Trona Drive Green River WY 82935 (307) 875-2598 [email protected] http://www.lutheransonline.com/lo/emmanuel Volume 1, Issue 1, Advent 2004 /LWXUJ\ +\PQRG\ Volume 1, Issue 2, Epiphany 2005 passion narrative every Lenten season. It is Read “The Passion” for Lent something that I would like to encourage.” With Ash Wednesday rapidly approaching on February 9th, L&H would like to share some “The Passion” suggestions for your Lenten service planning. is available for download as an rtf file at: http://www.lcms.org/pages/internal.asp?NavID=4586 Last year, our own District President, Ron Garwood, enocuraged us to “include a reading Teaching Toward LSB: of the passion narrative in your worship Compline for Lent services, either on Sunday or midweek, during the Lenten season. It is a good thing for the members of our congregations to hear each year the full account of our Lord's passion on their account. As I am sure all of you know, this reading is available in our Lutheran Lectionary books, and the reading is also available in other materials and books. I do know that the reading One of the most beautiful services in Lutheran of the passion narrative is being done in some of Worship is also one of the least well known, our Wyoming District Congregations as I have Compline, Prayer at the Close of the Day. This been present for worship and heard a portion service is commonly prayed about once a week read. But if there are pastors and congregations in the evening at our two seminaries. It has not doing this, again I encourage the passion become better known in its abbreviated form, as narrative reading be included as a part of your found on page 32 in Hymnal Supplement 98. regular Lenten worship.” Luther rescued Compline, along with Matins and Between Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday, the Vespers, from purely medieval monastic use and five midweek services are a wonderful time to made them prayer offices for the congregation. feature the five sections of “The Passion of Our In fact, the Nunc Dimittis, “Lord, now lettest Lord Jesus Christ Drawn from the Four Thou Thy servant depart in peace,” that we Gospels.” You may want to get to know the know so well from The Lutheran Hymnal, page Lutheran Service Book better by reading the 29ff, as a post-communion canticle, was conflation of the Gospel accounts of the Passion “borrowed” from Compline. from the LSB Altar Book on pages 83-87 of the LW congregations will find Compline on page proposal. 263ff. The chants are intended to be easy to learn. Following the opening sentences, an President Garwood also wrote, “…our people evening hymn may be sung, followed by over the years have grown greatly in knowing confession and a psalm. Compline is known for and understanding the Passion of our Lord its “brief reading” rather than a long lesson. simply through the repeated reading of the Volume 1, Issue 2, Epiphany 2005 (For Lent 2005 midweek services, L&H This Joyful Eastertide LW 140 recommends the following service order: a Lenten Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain LW 141 hymn, one of the five “Passion” readings Christ Has Arisen, Alleluia HS 828 mentioned previously, a brief sermon, and then Compline as found in LW or downloaded from the To download these LSB hymns, go to LSB website) http://www.lcms.org/graphics/assets/ Following the brief reading, a responsory media/Worship/HymnstoLearn.pdf follows. A Lenten Hymn is sung as the office hymn. The service continues with sung Recommended Books sentences and one or more collects. The Collect of the Day and other petitions may be offered at + Music for the Church: The Life and Work this time. The Lord’s Prayer may then be of Walter E. Buszin, by Kirby Koriath. CPH introduced by saying: “Taught by our Lord and # 17-7156. $20. 1 800 325 3040 trusting in His promises we are bold to say…” + Worship in the Name of Jesus, by Peter The Nunc Dimittis is the canticle for Compline Brunner, translated by M.